| Domain | Definition | ||
| Administration | The process by which a substance is passed up the food chain resulting in an especially high level of the substance at upper levels of the food chain. A biological process wherein a contaminant’s concentration increases at each level up the food chain, including humans. Thus, the availability of such contaminants, even in the seemingly insignificant parts per trillion range, often are ecologically important. (references) | ||
| Aerospace | Increase in the concentration of a chemical substance as it is progresses to higher trophic levels of a food chain. (references) | ||
| Agriculture | The increase in the concentration of bioaccumulated toxic chemicals in organisms higher on the food chain due to preferential storage of the toxic chemical in edible body parts. For example, chlorinated pesticides concentrate in the fat and skin of fish in contaminated lakes and streams and are biomagnified when those fish are eaten by larger fish, and perhaps eventually by mammals or birds of prey. (or biological magnification). (references) | ||
| Environment | A cumulative increase in the concentration of a persistent substance in successively higher trophic levels of the food chain (e.g., from algae to zooplankton to fish to birds). (references) | ||
| Technology | The enhancement of a substance (usually a contaminant) in a food web such that the organisms eventually contain higher concentrations of the substance than their food source. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
